1957: Graduated from the grammar school in Szamotuły, Wielkopolskie Voiv.
1962: M.A. degree in archaeology from the University of Poznan.
1966/67: scholarship from the University of Giza (Cairo), Faculty of Archaeology.
1968: Ph.D. degree in archaeology from the University of Poznan.
1975: Habilitation (highest academic degree in Poland) from the University of Poznan on  the basis of the book Early Farming Cultures on the Lower Nile. The Predynastic Period in  Egypt.
1981/82: Research fellowship from the Egyptian Museum in Munich (Germany).
1985: Overseas Visiting Scholar at the St John’s College in Cambridge (U.K.).
1989: Visiting Fellow at the Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary (Canada).
1992: Full professorship (received from the University of Warsaw).
1993: Visiting Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany).

Employment and Research:

1960- Poznan Archaeological Museum, general director since 1982.
1965-1972: Member of the Polish archaeological projects in Egypt ( Tell Atrib, Alexandria,  Deir el-Bahari).
1966-1972: Member of the Polish excavations at Old Dongola (Sudan).
1972 – Director of the Polish excavations at Kadero (Sudan).
1978-1990: Field director of the German excavations at Minshat Abu Omar (Eastern Delta).
1984-1986: Member of the American excavations at Kom el-Hisn (Western Delta).
1986 – Member of the Dakhleh Oasis Project (research on petroglyphs).

Other academic activities:

1980 – Secretary of the International Commission of the Later Prehistory of  Northeastern Africa (President: Fred Wendorf).
1991 – President of the Commission No. 24 for the Later Prehistoric and  Protohistoric Social Groups of Northeastern Africa of the International Union of Prehistoric  and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP).
1990 – President of the Scientific Council of the Polish Centre of  Mediterranean Archaeology (Warsaw University) in Cairo.